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SAVE THE DATE! THE 2024 NATIONAL REVIEW COURSE WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 1, 2024 in Vancouver and Kingston with a virtual option.
All information on this website applies to the 2023 course. Content will be updated in early fall 2024.
Welcome to the 2023 National Public Health and Preventive Medicine Review Course!
The UBC School of Population and Public Health and Queen’s Department of Family Medicine Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency programs have partnered together to host the annual national public health and preventive medicine review course. The course will take place from October 30-November 3, 2023. We are pleased to continue to offer participants three attendance options: in-person in Kingston, ON, in-person in Vancouver, BC or virtually via Zoom (including asynchronous attendance).
The course is an intensive review of the knowledge and competencies of the PHPM specialty offered annually to all Canadian R4 and R5 residents from Royal College training programs in Public Health and Preventive Medicine, as well as practicing physicians. Junior residents are also welcome to join, however it is worth noting content is directed towards more senior learners. National-level teachers have been selected to instruct the course which will include review and application of key concepts and examples for written and oral Royal College examination preparation. The course objectives align with the PHPM Royal College objectives of training. We have also identified entrustable professional activities and core curricula linked to each topic.
Session and topic themes were created from Public Health Agency of Canada core competencies for public health in Canada, the set of minimum competencies for medical officers of health in Canada, and a review of the American College of Preventive Medicine review course syllabus and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada Primer on Population Health. Our goal is to ensure all residents are familiar with this core curricula content and have a solid base on which to prepare for their examinations.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference! If you have any questions, please contact us.
Sincerely,
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Dr. Samantha Buttemer, MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC Associate Program Director, Queen’s PHPM Residency Program |
Dr. Trevor Corneil, MD MHSc FCFP FRCPC Program Director, UBC PHPM Residency Program |
SAVE THE DATE! THE 2024 NATIONAL REVIEW COURSE WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 1, 2024 in Vancouver and Kingston with a virtual option.
All information on this website applies to the 2023 course. Content will be updated in early fall 2024.
Registration is open to all Canadian residents from Royal College training programs in Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
Registration is also open to practicing physicians seeking to review core public health and preventive medicine topics.
Registration services are provided by UBC CPD
City Square, East Tower, Suite 200, 555 W. 12 Ave, Vancouver BC, V5Z 3X7
Ph: 604-675-3777; Online: www.ubccpd.ca
Registration Fees
| Registration Type | Price |
| PHPM Residents (In-person in Kingston or Vancouver) | $700 |
| PHPM Residents (Virtual attendance) | $550 |
| Registrants not in a PHPM residency program (In-person in Kingston or Vancouver) | $1350 |
| Registrants not in a PHPM residency program (Virtual attendance) | $1200 |
| Registration for one session (Virtual attendance) | $175 |
| Medical students | $150 |
Registration Notes:
The final day of registration for in-person attendance is October 16, 2023. Registration for virtual attendance will be available until October 23, 2023.
Registration is not required for UBC and Queen’s residents – you will be given further details by email.
Cancellation Policy:
If written notice of withdrawal and is received at UBC CPD by October 13, 2023 the registration fee, less a $100 CDN handling charge will be refunded. No refunds will be granted for withdrawal after this date. No refunds will be granted after the course has commenced for any reason.
Participants who need to cancel their registration after October 13 may transfer their registration to another individual. Please contact phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com for more details.
Credits for Royal College Specialists:
This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by Queen’s University Office of CPD. You may claim a maximum of 31 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
Hours for All Health Professionals:
This is a professional learning activity which provided up to 31 hours of Continuing Education
SAVE THE DATE! THE 2024 NATIONAL REVIEW COURSE WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 1, 2024 in Vancouver and Kingston with a virtual option.
All information on this website applies to the 2023 course. Content will be updated in early fall 2024.
Topics will include: Leadership & Management, Environmental Health, Qualitative Methods, Quantitative Methods, Health Policy, Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology, Public Health Ethics, Indigenous Health, Emergency Management, Non-Communicable Diseases, Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, Health Promotion, Public Health Law
Participants attending in-person will be provided with a light breakfast and lunch during each day of the course.
Kingston
9:30am to 6:00pm daily*
*Notes:
- Wednesday’s sessions will begin at 8:30am
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will begin with dedicated exam preparation sessions that will be available to in-person participants only. Practicing physicians may choose to skip these sessions.
Vancouver
8:30am to 5:00 pm daily*
*Notes:
- Wednesday’s sessions will run until 6:00pm
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will end with dedicated exam preparation sessions that will be available to in-person participants only. Practicing physicians may choose to skip these sessions.
Download the National Review Course schedule here.
The course schedule is subject to change. Please check back here for more details.
SAVE THE DATE! THE 2024 NATIONAL REVIEW COURSE WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 1, 2024 in Vancouver and Kingston with a virtual option.
All information on this website applies to the 2023 course. Content will be updated in early fall 2024.
Diana Bark
Diana Bark MD MPH FRCPC (she/her) is a Field Epidemiologist with the Public Health Agency of Canada, based with CD services at the BC Centre for Disease Control. She is a recent graduate of the Public Health & Preventive Residency program at the University of British Columbia.
Mike Benusic
Mike Benusic is a Medical Health Officer with Island Health in BC, with a generalist portfolio for South Vancouver Island and regional leadership in vaccination, epidemiology, and sexual health. He also moonlights in family medicine. He completed residency at University of Toronto in 2020. He is an expert in nothing, but close enough to residency to hopefully remember what is high-yield for exam and/or practice prep!
Alexa Caturay
Dr. Alexa Caturay works as an Associate Medical Officer of Health and Associate Director for Toronto Public Health, working with high-risk congregate settings across the City. She also works with a youth-focused mental health agency outside her public health role. She holds an Adjunct Professor appointment with Queen’s University and the University of Toronto. Outside of work, Alexa’s joy is mentoring with GEM, a one-to-one mentorship program for young women. She is also an avid but amateur gardener and a lover of all kinds of puzzles.
Sam Buttemer
Dr. Samantha Buttemer completed medical school in 2015 at Queen’s University. She subsequently graduated from the Queen’s Family Medicine Residency program in 2017 and the Queen’s PHPM Residency program in 2021. Dr. Buttemer holds an MSc in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Buttemer is the acting Program Director for the Queen’s PHPM Residency program and the Program Director for the Queen’s Master of Public Health program. She teaches in the Queen’s Department of Public Health Science and the School of Policy Studies.
Trevor Corneil
Dr. Trevor Corneil is a public health and preventive medicine specialist and inner-city medicine physician with over 20 years’ experience in both clinical and administrative practice in British Columbia, Canada. Trevor is currently Associate Director Clinical Faculty Affairs at the University of British Columbia’s School of Population and Public Health, Program Director of the school’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program, and a Medical Health Officer with BC’s Northern Health Authority. He is a Clinical Professor at the University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Medicine.
Trevor received his Bachelor in Life Sciences and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He then undertook his residency training at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, completing fellowships in both family medicine and public health and preventative medicine, and a Master’s degree in public health and epidemiology. Trevor is a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Practice of Canada.
Carol Fenton
Dr. Carol Fenton completed her Fellowship in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at the University of Calgary in 2018. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Health and Society and a Master’s Degree in Community Health Sciences, in addition to her Medical Degree, also at the University of Calgary.
Dr Fenton is now a Medical Health Officer with Interior Health. Dr Fenton lives in Kamloops with her family physician partner and their pets.
Ian Gemmill
Dr Ian Gemmill is a public health physician, based in Kingston, Canada, and has worked in local public health in Ottawa, Kingston and other locales in Canada for over 40 years. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada, a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Public Health & Preventive Medicine, an Honorary Member of the Canadian Paediatric Society, an Honorary Life Member of the Canadian Public Health Association, and a Certificant, Fellow and Life Member of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
He is the past chair of Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunisation (NACI) and continues to serve on its working groups. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Public Health Association and a member of the World Health Organisation’s Immunisation Practices Advisory Committee and Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety. He has served as co-chair of the Pandemic Vaccine Working Group for the Public Health Agency of Canada (2008- 2010) and of Immunize Canada. Dr Gemmill is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and of Public Health Sciences at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, has been involved in the Public Health and Preventive Medicine programme at Queen’s University, as faculty since 2009, programme director for the from 2009-2013, and current chair of its Competence Committee.
Hugh Guan
Dr Hugh Guan is a faculty member with the Queen’s PHPM Program and the Associate Medical Officer of Health at Kingston, Frontenac, and Lennox & Addington Public Health. He is also the Director of Knowledge Management at the agency leading surveillance, innovation, and evaluation efforts. His interests are in communicable diseases and health systems.
Jinhee Kim
JinHee Kim, MD, MPH, CCFP, FRCPC, is the Physician Lead, Environmental and Occupational Health, at Public Health Ontario. JinHee is also an assistant professor in the Clinical Public Health Division at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
JinHee’s interests include assessment of environmental hazards, exposures, and health outcomes to enhance information for public health action; the relative impact of different environmental health issues on the health of the population; food safety; risk communication and human health risk assessment for environmental hazards as it applies to public health.
JinHee is also a member of the Advisory Board for the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health and is active in educational committees at Public Health Ontario and as a faculty member with the University of Toronto’s Public Health and Preventive Medicine Program.
Liane Macdonald
Dr. Liane Macdonald is a public health physician in Health Protection at Public Health Ontario (PHO), with an interest in medical education. She is an Assistant Professor (Status Only) at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. She represents PHO on the five Ontario universities’ Public Health and Preventive Medicine residency program committees.
Richard Mather
Dr. Richard Mather is a public health physician in Health Protection at Public Health Ontario (PHO). He is an Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at Queen’s University in the Department of Family Medicine where he completed his M.D. and medical residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine including Family Medicine.
Geoff McKee
Dr. McKee completed his Medical Degree (2013), Master of Public Health (2017), and specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine (2018) at the University of British Columbia. He previously worked as a Medical Health Officer at Vancouver Coastal Health providing support for the Coastal Rural region, Population Health, Indigenous Health, and the Public Health Surveillance Unit.
He is currently the Medical Director of Population and Public Health at the BCCDC, which is focused on prevention of chronic disease and injury through supporting health promotion and healthy public policy. The PPH team also supports the centre with knowledge generation, synthesis, and translation activities related to population health. He is also a clinical assistant professor at the UBC School of Population and Public Health
Christine Navarro
Dr. Christine Navarro is a public health physician with the Immunization and Vaccine Preventable Diseases Team and the Enterics, Zoonotics, and Vectorborne Diseases Team at Public Health Ontario. She is also an Assistant Professor with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.
Jasmine Pawa
Dr. Jasmine Pawa is a Public Health and Preventive Medicine specialist physician. She works as a public health physician consultant to a range of public sector organizations and is the Past President of the national specialty society, Public Health Physicians of Canada. She has also provided Medical Officer of Health locum services, particularly in the North of Canada.
In addition to medicine and her specialty training in Canada at the University of Alberta and University of Toronto, she obtained a master’s degree in health policy in the UK jointly from LSE and LSHTM. She teaches at both NOSM University and the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Her professional focus is on health policy and health systems, particularly at the intersection of health care and public health, and she has additional experience in qualitative methods. She’s committed to working with teams on integrating population health and medical expertise with the insights of community members.
Sudit Ranade
Dr. Ranade is the Chief Medical Officer of Health for Yukon Territory. Prior to this role, Dr. Ranade practiced as a Medical Officer of Health in Ontario for 10 years. Dr. Ranade is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and holds graduate degrees in Public Health and Business Administration. Dr. Ranade has professional interests in public health physician practice, adolescent health and global health.
Abby Steinberg
Dr. Abigail Steinberg is a Medical Health Officer at Northern Health Authority, having recently completed her training as a Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM) specialist at the University of British Columbia. Abigail has specific interests in health equity and social determinants of health, and has experience in areas including addictions care (specifically in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver), harm reduction, and prison health.
Having grown up in Whitehorse, Yukon, Abigail continues to have strong roots in the territory. Her experience working with Residential Youth Treatment Services in Whitehorse for many years, solidified her interest in working with equity-deserving populations. She continues to return home to the Yukon often.
Sarah Wilson
Dr. Sarah Wilson is a public health physician at Public Health Ontario, specializing in Immunization and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases. She is an Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto and an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and is currently a member of NACI.
Cheryl Young
Dr. Cheryl Young is a Medical Health Officer and Medical Director with Population and Public Health at Fraser Health Authority. She provides direction and supports strategy for the Wellness Promotion Program, which includes the Health Schools Program, the Healthier Community Partnership Program, and initiatives pertaining to mental wellness and social inclusion, active living, healthy eating and food security, and substance use.
Cheryl obtained her MD from the University of Toronto. She then completed her residency training at the University of British Columbia, and is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Public Health and Preventive Medicine. She is also a certificant of the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Family Medicine, and has a Master of Public Health from the University of British Columbia.
Ethan Toumishey
Dr. Ethan Toumishey is the Medical Officer of Health and CEO of Hastings Prince Edward Public Health in Ontario. He completed specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and Family Medicine at Queen’s University. Originally from New Brunswick, he completed medical school at Dalhousie.
Ita Hyland
Ita Hyland is a dedicated professional with a lifelong passion for emergency management. Ita attributes her unwavering preparedness commitment to the “be prepared” motto instilled in her from a young age through her involvement with the Girl Guides of Canada.
Throughout her career, Ita has been instrumental in supporting British Columbia’s health care systems’ emergency preparedness. She began her journey assisting Providence Health Care with preparations for Y2K and has since played key roles in responding to SARS, preparing for the 2010 Olympics, managing the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, unprecedented wildfire seasons, atmospheric rivers, flooding, and a devastating heat dome.
In her role as HEMBC Director, Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), Ita and her team play a pivotal role in supporting all PHSA programs and services by coordinating the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of emergency management plans.
Sarah Funnell
Dr. Sarah Funnell is a First Nations family physician, public health specialist, and clinician scientist. Her background is mixed Algonquin and Tuscarora and grew up among the Mississaugas of Alderville First Nation. Her Algonquin name, Minwanimad, means pleasant breeze. Dr. Sarah Funnell currently holds the positions the Associate Dean and Chair of Indigenous Health at Queen’s Health Sciences at Queen’s University. In these roles she will lead efforts to incorporate Indigenous health and cultural perspectives into health education, administration, research, and clinical practice working in collaboration with Indigenous communities and students that are served by QHS.
Dr. Funnell previously held the positions of Director of Indigenous Health and Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Queen’s Health Sciences, and is the Founding Director of the Centre of Indigenous Health Research and Education and Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa.
Dr. Funnell was an Associate Medical Officer of Health at Ottawa Public Health until April 2022. She spent most of her time supporting the local pandemic response and promoting vaccine acceptance in Indigenous communities.
Barry Pakes
Dr. Barry Pakes is a Public Health specialist physician currently serving as Medical Officer of Health at York Region Public Health. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, and is Program Director of the Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency program at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the Global Health Lead for Medical Education at the University of Toronto. He also works clinically in primary care and emergency medicine in a variety of urban and rural settings. Dr. Pakes has degrees from Harvard, McGill and UofT, including a PhD in Public Health Ethics.
His other recent public health leadership roles include Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Health in Nunavut, and Associate Medical Officer of Health in Middlesex London Health Unit, Halton Region and Peel Region.
He has experience working globally, in Northern and indigenous communities, as well as at the World Health Organization – where he led work on pandemic ethics frameworks. His main areas of interest are in public health and global health ethics, vaccinology, health systems coordination and public health halacha.
Lindsay Bowthorpe
Dr. Lindsay Bowthorpe leads the Immunizations and Maternal, Child Health portfolios and provides strategic oversight for the health and well-being of residents in the communities of Burnaby and New Westminster.
In addition to her role at Fraser Health, Lindsay is a clinical instructor in the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She is actively involved in resident education and is the faculty lead for the academic half-day professional practice program in the Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program.
Lindsay completed her medical degree at the University of Alberta and her residency training at Queen’s University. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Public Health and Preventive Medicine and holds a certificate from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in Family Medicine.
Lindsay also holds a Bachelor of Science in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Alberta and a Master of Public Health from Queen’s University.
SAVE THE DATE! THE 2024 NATIONAL REVIEW COURSE WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 1, 2024 in Vancouver and Kingston with a virtual option.
All information on this website applies to the 2023 course. Content will be updated in early fall 2024.
Course Material
All registrants will be provided with electronic access to the course materials. To prevent unnecessary printing, we will not be providing paper copies of presentations or materials. There will be wifi at the course locations in Vancouver and Kingston to access the material online. Everyone with full registration will be given access to recordings for asynchronous learning.
Additional Resources
PHPM National Review Course Curriculum (coming soon)
SAVE THE DATE! THE 2024 NATIONAL REVIEW COURSE WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 1, 2024 in Vancouver and Kingston with a virtual option.
All information on this website applies to the 2023 course. Content will be updated in early fall 2024.
Vancouver
The course will take place at City Square (555 W 12 Avenue, Vancouver) in room CSSC 216.
Information on places to stay in Vancouver can be found on the Destination Vancouver Website: https://www.destinationvancouver.com/places-to-stay/
Travel to and around Vancouver
Kingston
The course will take place at the Donald Gordon Centre (421 Union Street, Kingston).
Information on places to stay in Kingston can be found on the Tourism Kingston Website: http://tourism.kingstoncanada.com/en/stay/hotelsmotels.asp
Travel to and around Kingston
SAVE THE DATE! THE 2024 NATIONAL REVIEW COURSE WILL RUN FROM OCTOBER 28 TO NOVEMBER 1, 2024 in Vancouver and Kingston with a virtual option.
All information on this website applies to the 2023 course. Content will be updated in early fall 2024.
Any questions about the 2023 National Review Course should be directed to Kaitlyn Shannon, phpm.reviewcourse@gmail.com
Questions about the 2024 National Review Course can be directed to the UBC School of Population and Public Health PHPM Residency Program spph.residency@ubc.ca